Loyer A Louer Quotes & Sayings

Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth. — Santoka Taneda

The Memorabilia, the abbey's small patrimony of knowledge out of the past, had been walled up in underground vaults to protect the priceless writings from both nomads and soidisant crusaders of the schismatic Orders, founded to fight the hordes, but turned to random pillaging and sectarian strife. Neither the nomads nor the Military Order of San Pancratz would have valued the abbey's books, but the nomads would have destroyed them for the joy of destruction and the military knightsfriars would have burned many of them as "heretical" according to the theology of Vissarion, their Antipope. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many
perhaps all
of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds. — Roger Tory Peterson

Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.' — Immanuel Kant

The world, no matter how monstrously it may be threatened, has never been known to succumb entirely. — Lemony Snicket